Welcome to Blackpast

Welcome to BlackPast

This 6,000 page reference center is dedicated to providing information to the general public on African American history and the history of more than one billion people of African ancestry around the world.  We invite you to explore and use all the resources of BlackPast.

Explore African American History

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Sean “Diddy” Combs (1970- )
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Bobby Womack (1944-2014)
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Lloyd Ferguson (1918- )
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Timothy R. Russell (1968-2012)

Explore Global African History

Jennifer Hosten Winning the Miss World Contest, 1970
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Jennifer Hosten (1947- )
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Andrea Aguyar (a.k.a. Andrea Aquyar and Andrea il Moro), 1810?-1849
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The TransPacific Struggle over Citizenship: Seeking Welfare Rights in Kawasaki City, Japan and Los Angeles, California,1962-1982
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Kingstown, St. Vincent and the Grenadines (1722- )

Perspectives in African American and Global African History

Members of the Southern Negro Youth Congress meet with Idaho Senator Glen Taylor, 1947
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The Southern Negro Youth Congress: A Participant Recalls Its Past
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Crossing Boundaries of Race, Crossing Boundaries of Love
Africa in 1595 as known to Italian explorers and cartographers
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Africa and Africans in the Imagination of Renaissance Italians (1450-1630)
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From Slave to Litigant: African Americans in Court in the Post-Civil War South

Special Features & Resources

101 African American Firsts
Genealogy Resources
Major African American Office Holders since 1641
STEM Innovators

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